Media has constantly been analyzing the reasons for failure of Royal Challenger Banglore and Deccan Chargers Hyderabad teams. But Banglore team is attracting much more attention due to Vijay Mallaya, who termed his team as "Test Team". One of the main reasons for the team being termed as test team might have been the presence of Rahul Dravid (as captain) and Wasim Jaffar, both of whom are known to be good players for test matches.
On the other hand Yuvraj Singh is getting aaccolades because his team is winning and has already confirmed its place in Semi Finals. Sachin Tendulkar already have the status of "God of Indian Cricket". Sehwag was also being said as inspiring and explosive and all those things until Delhi lost to Kolkata and now is struggling to get into Semis.
If we take a look at the individual players Yuvraj and Tendulkar are the two with lowest average in IPL matches among Ganguly, Dravid, Dhoni, Sehwag, Yuvraj and Tendulkar. Dravid who is considered as the test player is having strike rate almost equal to Dhoni who is credited with India's success in T20 world Cup. Dravid has also scored more runs.
Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | Ave | SR | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct |
Ganguly | 13 | 13 | 1 | 349 | 29.08 | 113.68 | 3 | 33 | 15 | 5 |
Yuvraj | 13 | 12 | 1 | 246 | 22.36 | 153.75 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 7 |
Dhoni | 13 | 12 | 3 | 348 | 38.67 | 129.85 | 2 | 33 | 12 | 5 |
Sehwag | 13 | 13 | 2 | 403 | 36.64 | 186.57 | 3 | 46 | 21 | 2 |
Dravid | 13 | 13 | 1 | 360 | 30 | 127.21 | 2 | 35 | 11 | 2 |
Tendulkar | 5 | 5 | 0 | 118 | 23.6 | 118 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 4 |
From the above table we can observe that individual players performance has no direct link with the teams performance. This is also evident from the English Premier League. The teams in EPL are excellent and each player performance is superb but the performance of English team on international level is not so recognized.
Further in team selection more importance should be given to current performance rather than selecting because "Sehwag scored triple tone against Pakistan 3 years back" or " Dhoni scored 189 few years back" or "Tendulkar used to be the match winner 5-8 years back"
From the above discussion we can conclude that "how much can a person contribute to the team" is more important than "How good can a person perform" and rather than giving importance to past individual performance we should give more weightage to "Who can contribute to the TEAM today"
So,
To succeed in any field (not only cricket) we should have a balanced and dedicated team rather than the star studded team
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